A Fistful of Darkness – Alpha 1 Release for Playtesting
So, here you go: Another guy from Germany trying to tell cool Wild (Weird) West stories. This is the first version of my Weird West Blades hack. I’m not a game designer, I’m just a fan of the game, so please tread lightly on my baby. I’m a bit nervous about what you think of it, so I hope you like it and it’s fun to play.
It would be awesome if you and your group participate in the playtest, … please?
Let you know if I can help you with that.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ehebbcHEcJWDo8CRba5p71XZU84Mr1jK/view?usp=sharing
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ehebbcHEcJWDo8CRba5p71XZU84Mr1jK/view?usp=sharing
Oh, btw two playbooks are still under contruction: the Gentle Touch & the Blueprint.
Stefan, this makes you a game designer ;p
YES SO PSYCHED
Werden Sie eine deutsche Version erstellen? Ich bin ein Amerikaner in Deutsch lebt.
Not many RPGs in German.
Too much good stuff to read! I vote we add another day to the week just for catching up on games. Ullsday, perhaps?
That is some really brilliant stuff 😀
You are totally a game designer.
Very cool! Excited to see where this goes! ^_^
Thanks everybody for the kind words. Feedback is welcome and it would be very cool to see you play my game. Wright Johnson Pete Nixon Brock McCord
Mathias Belger Benjamin Davis Really? Seems so 🙂
Toimu Funny, because many parts of this document were written first in German and then translatet in (I hope) decent English. There are some German (classic Fantasy) RPGs like Midgard (not the Pathfinder settig) and Das Schwarze Auge. There is a German translation of Dungeonworld recently. There is a German Shadowrun, too.
Galen Pejeau The Framstag (Freitag + Samstag / Friday + Saturday) was already invented by Paul van Herck 🙂
a. Cool!
b. if THE PLAN choose to come back with 1 Grit, should he take trauma? also
c. distant causin is the best asset.
So many cool hacks! I need a group to play them all (beside the original BitD, of course!).
Roe Portal b. No, I don’t think so. He planned for it, so it may look like he’s out but he just isn’t. Plus coming back with 1 grit is on the brink of trauma anyway and I don’t want PCs getting two traumas after another.
a. / c. thanks 🙂
Awesome. I will try to convince some friends to play it. (I’m tired of always being the GM, so i need to get one)
Sory for the Enlgish!
Again, Very good work, it seems a very solid hack.
Franco bianchini Do that! Looking forward to your play report. Have fun!
This is excellent! I really like the way your writing conveys the grim squalor of the setting.
Galen Pejeau Thanks! [… was busy stealing Special Abilities from your sheets for my missing Tribe sheet :)]
I believe I will be doing the same soon, so no worries!
I may even take a crack at a bit of art for you if you’re interested. What’s the most iconic image that comes to mind when you envision this setting?
YEAH! Really like you style and plan to steal something of that as well. Iconic? Let me think. I think that’s the posse going side by side, down main street or over coming fresh from an Hellstone Mine. A bit like this one from RDR with fewer people
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Trying to do something decent like this for some weeks now…
Galen Pejeau … or a picture like this cool one with 2-3 scavengers on one side and a mine (maybe with some tentacles coming from it) on the other side…?
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I love your black/white high contrast style. Very cool. 🙂
Stefan Struck Cool idea!
Might have to steal those travel plan/dungeoncrawl rules for a quick westmarches hack 😀
Frank Lisbon Go ahead and to that… but: you should now that I’m thinking about deleting them already. First playtest showed that they may not be useful. Additional playtest will tell if this is true.
Just to say I read through Fistful of Darkness and I approve, particularly like the newcomer faction idea (like when Si and his brothel shows up in Deadwood), the grit pool, the Lone Renevant and the world-building-by-map. Intrigued by the idea of hexcrawling within a BiTD system but admit the travel plan/dungeon crawl rules left me a little cold – might just have to see them in practice. I feel it’s something BiTD is crying out for though with all those Deadlands to explore, just yet to find something that really gels with the rest.
William H Thanks for the feedback. Depending of the style of play Vanilla Blades may not need any additional for the dungeon crawling. The additional tables and rules are an optional add-on right now, fighting for their place in the rules. You’re right that they have to prove their value in playtesting. So, if you have any ideas for improvement I really would like to here it. I hope for Band of Blades to have any rules i could steal, but I did not see any releases from there.